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William Shakespeare × Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By Marcel Dzama and William Shakespeare
Series: Seeing Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's enchanting romantic comedy set in a magical forest where transformation and witchcraft intertwine multiple narratives. The play draws inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses and is famously portrayed with actors wearing animal masks, highlighting the blend of human and animal, fantasy and reality.
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This book will appeal to lovers of Shakespeare, contemporary art enthusiasts, and readers fascinated by the fusion of fantasy, fairy tales, and mythical symbolism.

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Set in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds.

Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's celebrated romantic comedy intertwines multiple narratives under the influence of transformation and witchcraft. The play is often staged with actors wearing animal masks, an aspect that appeals particularly to Dzama, whose work is characterised by the fusion of human and animal, fantasy and reality.

As the second title in David Zwirner Books's Seeing Shakespeare series, this book revisits this ultimate fairy tale through the eyes of a contemporary artist who feels a special affinity for its imagery.

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Vanity Fair praises the collaboration with Marcel Dzama as particularly magical, noting his vibrant watercolours of mythical creatures and dreamlike imagery breathe new life into Shakespeare's classic. ARTnews highlights the glimpse the book offers into Dzama's delicately rendered and bizarre creative universe. BOOKFORUM describes Dzama's work as a fun-house hell where enigmatic figures inhabit a circus-like underworld, underlining his unique artistic vision.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781644230442

Publisher: David Zwirner

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 May 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: David Zwirner

Illustration: 20 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Leslie Jamison

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 174

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Marcel Dzama Non-Fiction Series: Seeing Shakespeare William Shakespeare

About the Author

Since rising to prominence in the late 1990s, Canadian-born artist Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) has developed an immediately recognizable visual language that investigates human action and motivation, as well as the blurred relationship between the real and the subconscious. Drawing equally from folk vernacular as from art-historical and contemporary influences, Dzama's work visualizes a universe of childhood fantasies and otherworldly fairy tales.

Leslie Jamison is the New York Times best-selling author of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (2018), a critical memoir; two essay collections, The Empathy Exams (2014) and Make It Scream, Make It Burn (2019); and a novel, The Gin Closet (2010). She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

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